Steps star Claire Richards is ready to launch a brand new solo album.
The 45-year-old pop star has revealed that she is engaged on a follow-up to her 2019 debut studio album ‘My Wildest Desires’ after being impressed by her stint on ITV’s ‘The Masked Singer’ as Knitting.
Claire is quoted by The Solar newspaper’s Weird column as saying: “’The Masked Singer’ undoubtedly made me need to do extra solo music.
“I’m engaged on an album for the time being. So hopefully that will probably be out in some unspecified time in the future this 12 months and I’m doing gigs by myself all summer time.
“Steps are having a break for the time being so I’m engaged on music as we communicate.”
Steps first shaped in 1997 and loved success with hits equivalent to ‘Tragedy’ and ‘Stomp’ earlier than splitting in 2001 however have launched three brand-new albums and staged a string of sell-out area excursions since reuniting in 2011.
The band are usually not achieved but and are planning a West Finish musical based mostly on their songs.
The ‘One For Sorrow’ hitmakers – additionally comprising Faye Tozer, Lee Latchford-Evans, Lisa Scott-Lee, and Ian ‘H’ Watkins – are planning to take their songs to the stage within the type of a jukebox musical, with Lisa explaining that they’ve a “implausible again catalogue” which might lend itself nicely to the world of theatre.
Lisa mentioned: “It’s one thing that excites us as a band and we expect we now have a implausible catalogue that may actually lend itself to a West Finish musical, and so we’re in talks. It could be a tremendous factor do as a result of we now have all these fantastic highlights, from successful a BRIT Award to promoting out all these arenas and primary albums.”
Nonetheless, the musical won’t be based mostly on the band members themselves.
She defined: “The vast majority of us love theatre and love that aspect of issues, however I would not recommend we might all be taking part in ourselves. It could be nice to be behind the scenes, concerned within the writing, and concerned within the creatives. Once we tour, that’s what we do. Folks most likely suppose we simply flip up on stage and carry out the present, however we’re producing the present together with our inventive director and our administration group.”
